News
Fifth Planning conference in Lighthouse City Tartu
On 7.- 8. November, SmartEnCity project partner University of Tartu organized a thematical session in the framework of Tartu's Planning Conference 2019.
New attraction in Tartu: A local guide is now offering a SmartEnCity Tour
Ilze Salnaja-Värv is the first tour guide to receive an official certification and approval to start offering a SmartEnCity themed tour to visitors of Tartu.
Estonian Smart City Club met in Valga
On October 29, representatives of five Estonian cities and rural governments met in Valga, Estonia, for the fourth meeting of the Estonian Smart City Club. Participating were representatives of Tartu, Elva, Tapa, Valga and Paide, in addition to the SmartEnCity project partners Institute of Baltic Studies (IBS)and Tartu Regional Energy Agency (TREA).
SmartEnCity Newsletter no.7 published
What was happening in our Lighthouse Cities during the past 6 month? How are the Follower Cities doing? What about the SmartEnCity Network acitivies?
New SmartEnCity Network Bulletin no.15 published
The new edition of the Network Bulletin informs about the growing SmartEnCity Network family, on the succes of our rewarded Lighthouse Cites Sonderborg and Tartu and on Tartu's experiences with retrofitting Soviet-era apartment buildings.
Chinese climate innovation award for Lighthouse City Sonderborg
Sonderborg Municipality has been rewarded with the 'City of Innovation' award, which was presented at the conference 'Euro-China Green & Smart City Summit' held in the Chinese city of Nanning, September 2019. Sonderborg was awarded the prize for working within the EU project - SmartEnCity
SmartEnCity at "Cities After Transition 2019" conference in Belgrade, Serbia
On 27th September, Project Partner UTAR held a session “Smart post-socialist city”. Smart City is a very general term for noting the application of technologies in cities and in reality, it is very often used as a branding term for the cities. Academic research on smart cities has been mostly focused on the contexts of Western and Asian cities, much less is known about Eastern-European and post-socialist cities. This in mind, UTAR organized a session to provoke the discussion about applying new technologies, using new datasets and planning practices in post-socialist cities.
Art season in Lighthouse City Tartu has ended for this year
Within the framework of the SmartEnCity project, the last two wall paintings in Tartu's smart city district were completed at the end of September, with the remaining paintings set to be completed next year.
Lighthouse City Tartu received another two awards for "Energy Actions of the Year"
This year, the City of Tartu won two Energy Action of the Year awards. The awards were presented to Tartu for the implementation of gas buses and the launch of the first Baltic Smart Bike Share.
First Balance after three months of public Bike Sharing in Lighthouse City Tartu
Tartu unveils incredible figures: Since its launch on 8th June, the new smart shared bicycles have covered a distance of more than 1.5 million kilometres with more than 532,000 rides taken. During the summer months, Tartu Smart Bike Share had nearly 20,000 active users. What a success!